self-conscious - Story 126793 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're the new owner of the…house?" The contractor squinted, his gaze sweeping over Sarah as he spoke. He knew. Sarah knew he knew. He was here to fix the leaky faucet in the bathroom, the same bathroom where the unfortunate event had occurred. She'd been scrubbing obsessively since that conversation with the realtor.

She pointed to the faucet, trying to appear nonchalant. "Yes," she managed. Her voice felt thin, tight. She watched him work, acutely aware of every move he made. Each time he reached for a tool, or glanced around the room, it felt like an inspection.

She felt a dampness in her palms and a prickling sensation on her skin. She found herself talking faster, rambling about the improvements she planned to make. She felt a growing need to keep the conversation going, to avoid any pauses that might invite unwelcome questions. Her gaze kept darting towards the door, searching for an escape.

Emotion: self-conscious

Cluster: Embarrassment

PC1 (Valence): -1.03 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.52

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-conscious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 self-conscious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-conscious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-conscious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.307
`C`	0.298
`ness`	0.273
`尴尬`	0.263
`😶`	0.242

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.399
`de`	-0.266
`triumphant`	-0.266
`আনন্দের`	-0.247
`ايا`	-0.238